It’s change into one thing of a seasonal custom – with apologies to the exceptional Randall Munroe – for me to sort out your weird hypothetical economics questions. To provide you a way of what I meanm listed here are some questions from earlier years:
- What if DogeCoin turned the official US forex?
- How massive would an asteroid fabricated from valuable metallic must be for it to be value doing an area mission to carry it again?
- What if rates of interest had been managed by the online run charge in a unending cricket match between the Treasury and the Financial institution of England?
- What does the world appear to be if all financial transactions at the moment are carried out with solely penny cash?
You get the concept.
I’m hoping to publish extra solutions to more bizarre questions, so please ship them in – when you’re receiving this submit by way of electronic mail simply hit reply, or you may ship them in to me at tim.harford at my ft.com electronic mail handle. Temporary is nice, bizarre is nice, political might be not as humorous as you suppose – wanting ahead to tackling your questions!
